Subject: Intelligence » Stupidity (Page 6)

Can't find his ass with two hands and a flashlight

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb; to be a back, you only have to be dumb.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

(1838 – 1918) journalist, historian, academic & novelist

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist

He couldn’t find his ass with a flashlight and a roadmap.

It [feminism] is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

(1930 – ) American Southern Baptist minister, executive & media mogul

He don't know shit from peach butter.

It’s easy to identify people who can’t count to ten; they’re in front of you in the supermarket express lane.

He couldn’t grow pole beans in a pile of horse shit.

That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

The boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball.

cartoon character (Mel Blanc)

Some people fish in the Sea of Life without bait.

It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is sheer foolishness, because it has suited the majority.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

I'd rather be rich than stupid.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

(1876 – 1967) German statesman

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Consistence requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

1865 – 1959) American art historian